In linguistics, “Aryan” once referred to the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. 在语言学中,“Aryan”曾用来指印欧语系的印伊语族分支。
The term “Aryan” was later misused in racist ideology, so many scholars avoid it outside historical contexts. “ Aryan”一词后来被种族主义意识形态滥用,因此许多学者在非历史语境中会避免使用它。